Travel Is Part of My Recovery Plan

Before I had ever taken my first trip, I knew I loved travel. As an adult, I’ve managed to go on at least one solo trip a year. Less than two months after returning from a three-week-long trip to Thailand and Bali in 2015, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was 41.

I had promised my primary care physician before I left that I would get my annual mammogram when I returned. What I had thought would be a routine test turned into a diagnosis that changed everything – stage II triple negative breast cancer.

I was determined to not let cancer halt my plans to travel.

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